716 CLAVARIA 



2434. C. argillacea (Pers.) Fr. (= Clavaria ericetorum Pers.) Boud. 

 Icon. t. 175, as Clavaria ericetorum Pers. 



ArgiUacea, clay colour. 



R. 3-8 cm. high, 4-8 mm. broad, whitish yellow, or citron yellow, 

 simple, elongate, attenuated at the base and shining, very rarely 

 bifurcate, compressed, with one or two longitudinal channels, apex 

 obtuse, or truncate, stuSed, fragile. Flesh concolorous, floccose. Spores 

 white, reniform, or oblong and depressed on one side, 10 x 5 6/t, with 

 granular contents; "basidia conspicuous, 70 p long, with 4 sterigmata, 

 contents granular. Internal structure almost pseudoparenchymatous 

 in transverse section even when old, cells regular, 10-14/x in diam., 

 with small, narrow filaments (4-5 fi in diam.) between; segments 

 50-70 /LI, long towards the margin, but up to 200-300 \L in the centre " 

 Cotton & Wakef. Solitary, or in tufts of two or three. Heaths, and 

 hillsides. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2435. C. straminea Cotton. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. m, t. 11, erro- 

 neously lettered Clavaria persimilis Cotton. 



Straminea, straw colour. 



R. 3-5 cm. high, 3-4 mm. thick, straw-coloured, becoming brownish 

 with age or when handled, simple, cylindrical, or somewhat com- 

 pressed, smooth, apex usually acute. Stem usually very distinct, cinna- 

 mon yellow, stuffed, brittle. Flesh somewhat darker than the hymenium. 

 Spores white, globose, with a minute basal apiculus, granular, 5-7 /LI; 

 basidia 40-60 x 7-9 p, with 4-sterigmata, contents granular. Internal 

 structure pseudoparenchymatous in transverse section. Isolated, or 

 caespitose. Amongst short grass, lawns, and pastures. Sept. Oct. 

 Rare, (v.v.) 



2436. C. Michelii Rea. P. A. Micheli, an early illustrator of fungi. 

 R. 47 cm. high, 1-2 mm. thick, yellow, white at the base, cylindrical, 



hollow, apex acute, very fragile. Flesh yellowish, white at the base. 

 Spores white, subglobose, 3 x 2/n. Fasciculate. Amongst grass under 

 a cherry tree. Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



***White, rarely yellow. 



2437. C. vermicularis Fr. Vermicularis, pertaining to worms. 

 R. 6-12 cm. high, 3-5 mm. broad, shining white, elongate fusiform, 



attenuated at both ends, compressed, with a longitudinal channel down 

 the middle, often twisted, hollow, apex acute, often becoming brownish 

 when weathered, very brittle. Flesh white, fragile. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, with a basal apiculus, 5-7 x 3-4 /LI, with a large central gutta; 

 "basidia small, 30 x 6-7 /x, with 4-sterigmata. Hyphae parallel, 

 septate, with rather long cells, pseudoparenchymatous in transverse 

 section, central cells 10-15/z in diam., with smaller cells intermixed" 



